EU and South Asia Scrap Over Recycling Ships

A European effort to bar the use of potentially hazardous ship recyclers in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh has run aground, stalled by an outcry from the South Asian countries.

The proposed legislation would bar ships flying European Union flags from "beaching" old ships, that is, steaming them onto shore, where they are dismantled by hand at informal shipyards. The low-cost, ship-scrapping industry of India, Pakistan and...